We Say We Want Peace

We say we want peace
A simpler world
Filled with
Community gardens
Sunshine
Kindness

Yet we live like savages

We stomp on our neighbor’s gardens
We block the sunshine
We are so incredibly
Un-kind

We take
More than
We need

We take
What we
Could leave
 
We take
Each other’s
Parking spaces

We say that we want peace
And then go right on living
In ways that prove
We don’t